An oil tanker is a large ship that transports oil from one place to another. It is like a huge container on water that carries lots of oil, just like a truck carries things on a road. Full definition
They don't want the number of oil tankers in the Burrard inlet to go up sevenfold and they are backing the legal challenges coming from three of the B.C. coastal nations. (macleans.ca)
Kinder Morgan has been granted permission to expand its pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast with a resulting increase in oil tanker traffic in coastal waters. (thetyee.ca)
Perhaps, as May says, overturning «the current moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the B.C. coastline», and allowing huge Chinese tankers to use the «300 km of perilous navigation in highly energetic tidal conditions is a bad choice». (ethicaloil.org)